An unarmed shrub of 12 feet, or a small tree. Branches terete, slender, glabrescent; branchlets alternate, pubescent. Leaves oval or ovate, obtusely acuminate, rounded or somewhat narrowed at the base, chartaceous, with short scattered pubescence, paler beneath (when dry), 1–4 by 1/2–1 3/4 in.; lateral veins about 5–6 pairs; petiole 1/20– 1/5 in.; stipules subulate from a short sheathing connate pubescent base, 1/8– 1/6 in. long. Flowers (when expanded) 1/4 in. long, pentamerous, greenish white; pedicels slender, short, rather lengthening in fruit, pubescent or glabrate, 3–1 together, on a short common bracteolate axillary peduncle. Calyx pubescent or nearly glabrous; teeth short, ciliolate, subulate. Corolla-tube cylindrical, glabrous except the throat; lobes ovate, sub-apiculate. Anthers half exserted, puberulous. Ovary 5–3-celled; style rather exceeding the corolla; stigma globular, obscurely lobed. Fruit glabrate, globose, 1/6– 1/5 in. diameter.
